Richard, If your interested in AI work that hasn't been but could be applied, check out Barbara Hayes-Roth's work with Smart Interactive Characters at http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/bhr/. David Boulder, Colorado, USA At 04:13 PM 1/22/02 -0500, Edward Shanken wrote: >If you're not familiar with it already, you might also check the work of >Myron Kreuger, a pioneer of VR, who created computer controlled interactive >environments beginning in the early 1970s, and the A-Life work of >multimedia artists Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Neither is >applied to dance, but could be... > >Eddie > >Dr. Edward A. Shanken, Executive Director >ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies >17 John Hope Franklin Center, Box 90400 >Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0400 > >http://www.duke.edu/web/isis > >virtual systems - multimedia - policy - collaboration > > > > > Antoine > Schmitt > <as@asci.fdn.fr> To: > > Sent > by: dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu > owner-dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio cc: > > -state.edu Subject: > Re: Artificial Avatars > > > > > 01/22/02 10:51 > AM > Please respond to > dance-tech > > > > > > > > >:::::::::22/01/02::::0:28 +0000::::Richard Widgery::::::::: > >Has anyone used AI technology in the creation of dance performances? > >Hello, >I have done some experiments in this field, with a real dancer and an >artificial creature that learned the dancer's movements, using a >camera. With the bias that the creature was not humanoid, but looked >and behaved more like a cloud. >http://www.gratin.org/as/txts/sparks.html >Also, I have done some pieces, not designed for performance, but as >autonomous pieces. Humanoid (or at least, having a "real" body): >http://www.gratin.org/as/avecdetermination/ > >I think that autonomous artificial entities are a very rich and >underexplored aspect of dance, and I would really much like to find >someone, on the dance side, ready to work on a real project around >this with me. > >Thank you, > > Antoine
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